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Memphis Hotels and Visitor Information
Region: South
State: Tennessee
Population: 650,100
Elevation: 264 ft
Area Code(s): 901
Information: Convention and Visitors Bureau, 47 Union Ave, 38103; phone 901/543-5300
Email: joros@mcvb.org Web: www.memphistravel.com
Area Description:
The muddy Mississippi rolling past Memphis' front stoop has been the one constant throughout the city's many transformations. From its heyday as the largest inland port and cotton market in the South, to its decline during Reconstruction, to its current renaissance, Memphis has endured and prospered.
Despite its development Memphis has retained the slow, unhurried approach to life characteristic of the South. Although the blues is a natural product of this setting, the city has a healthy sense of humor. Nowhere is this more apparent than at the Peabody Hotel, a dignified Memphis landmark that refuses to take itself too seriously. Twice daily, five ducks carry out a time-honored tradition as they march to and from the lobby fountain along their own red carpet to the robust marches of John Philip Sousa.
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